the New Popular Front denounces “a defamation campaign”, Raphaël Glucksmann prefers to launch a “charter”

Two press releases were published in parallel on Sunday, but they were not signed by the same left-wing parties.

The New Popular Front denounced Sunday June 22 in a forum “smear campaign” on the fight against anti-Semitism, orchestrated according to him by “a macronie in disarray”. For his part, MEP Raphaël Glucksmann and his Place publique party proposed a “charter of republican commitment” on the subject.

“We condemn with the greatest firmness those who use our Jewish compatriots as scapegoats for all the ills of the planet”launched in a joint letter the leaders of the four parties making up the New Popular Front: Manuel Bompard (LFI), Olivier Faure (PS), Fabien Roussel (PCF) and Marine Tondelier (Ecologists).

The left-wing parties, mainly LFI, intend to respond to accusations of ambiguity on the fight against anti-Semitism. They undertake in particular to “give justice the means to fight Islamophobia and anti-Semitism”, “establish an equality commission with a discrimination observatory”throw “a plan to combat discrimination” or to ensure the security of places of worship and culture.”

At the same time, Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the European list of the PS-Place publique list, in conflict with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the leadership of France insoumise on the question of anti-Semitism, published his own charter.

“There is an explosion of anti-Semitism, each political group must make its commitments. There is a problem on the left, and in the perception of the left by public opinion. We must make commitments that respond to it”he argued to AFP, once again criticizing the terms “residual anti-Semitism” used by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The text, also signed by the co-president of Place publique and MEP Aurore Lalucq, proposes to “immediately sanction any candidate or elected official uttering anti-Semitic remarks or relativizing anti-Semitism”, to “train future elected officials in the fight against anti-Semitism and all forms of racism”, to commit to securing places of worship, to “launch a parliamentary commission of inquiry” into anti-Semitism in France and finally to support a “European strategy” to fight against anti-Semitism.